Tag: poetry
group name: parables
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January 01, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
Not the year ahead
but the now of this today.
Your precious canvas.
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January 01, 2007 09:38 AM EST --
Every sunrise new.
Moments make the year good will.
Count the smiles, not tears.
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September 01, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
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For John Walter,
Dandelion
You find it tenderly slipping away,
this clarity inside expansive darkness
where you once used to rest
unswerving in confidence . . . more
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September 04, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
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I'm proud to announce the winner for the Poem of the Month for August for Thirteen Blackbirds , a compact and highly charged poem by Rae Pater. Rae's poetry is superb. She has . . . more
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December 19, 2006 08:04 AM EST --
Not a rehearsal.
Grow,Give,Struggle,cry and laugh.
Not a rehearsal.
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June 06, 2007 04:07 AM EDT --
My bones are shells, my flesh hangs soft,
family treats me like delicate china;
well,
my head does look like an egg in a cup.
I still tend my garden.
Butterflies weave among spires of delphinium,
lay . . . more
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July 30, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
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The boy that teased my daughter
went to Iraq and came home without
an eye. It turns out a laundry list
of my daughter's high school friends
went to Iraq and we're finding . . . more
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June 15, 2007 01:25 AM EDT --
My mother's mothers walked on speaking earth
to hear the soothing croon of healing herbs,
the ever present drum of tree and rock,
moon's messages of year and season's turn.
Within the city's . . . more
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August 21, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
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When the frogs die
When the skies darken
When the canopy opens
When the bat eats its last insect
When the song sparrow is silenced
When the sun is blurred black
When the . . . more
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August 14, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
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Fine Attire
One is drawn thin.
Led unceremoniously
through the needle's
eye, sewn fragilely
into the warp,
the fluffy fibers
barely showing
through along
the . . . more
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March 26, 2007 08:47 AM EDT --
Do We Really Hate Poetry?
We hate poetry. Oh c’mon, admit it. It makes . . . more
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April 09, 2007 04:19 PM EDT --
my poems are written in a rhythm of unpoetic distortion/ divided by pierced ears. false eyelashes/subtracted by people constantly torturing . . . more
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September 10, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Volume 3, Number 5 ~Poems on Poems~
A poem should be motionless . . . more
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May 21, 2007 09:40 AM EDT --
POETRY CENTRAL Volume 2, Number 3 ~ Publish or Perish? ~
How do I get my work published? Are . . . more
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November 12, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
Here is the logo for the Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry Group and eventually for the Poetry Magazine. It's a linoleum "woodcut" illustration which my wife, Susan, just made. Pretty . . . more
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September 14, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
Our creative writing final exam in my junior year at Mercer Island High School was an oral presentation on one of our favorite authors: give a little history, show their impact from a literary, . . . more
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February 17, 2007 07:30 PM EST --
Did you see the young lad named Benny
Scoop from the street, errant pennies?
He then placed them in jars
And ran laughing, afar,
To banks where they now grow aplenty!
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross . . . more
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February 01, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
It was one of those flash and illuminate moments. I sat down with my first cup of coffee, and went straight to a Kill the thread article to see who was still in the running. Enroute I noticed an . . . more
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April 06, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
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POETRY CENTRAL, Vol 5, No. 6 Poetry Competion
Every month (or even more often) I will select a poem, from poems submitted to me personally, which will appear . . . more
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October 02, 2007 02:02 PM EDT --
I've finally got my poetry blog up and running. It is a weekly blog with poetry, essays and critiques of contemporary poetry. There is also a link to my published poems in poetry . . . more
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